NECA Urges FG, Ministers ToTackle Obstacles Hampering Businesses

The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) yesterday advised the Federal Government and the newly appointed Ministers to unite and tackle the challenges confronting businesses and hindering employment of youths.
The Director-General of NECA, Mr Timothy Olawale, made the appeal while speaking with newsmen in Lagos on the inauguration of the new Federal Executive Council by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.
Olawale congratulated the newly appointed ministers while describing the appointments as a call to urgent national service.
“This appointment is a call to national service as the nation is faced with dire challenges, it needs urgent attention, the task ahead of the ministers requires commitment, focus and determination.
“The new ministers need to be proactive, consultative and facilitators of economic growth and national development,” the director-general said.
He said the issues confronting the nation required that government and all stakeholders joined hands in navigating the ship of state away from the perennial challenges facing businesses and the high youths unemployment.